RPGM - Completed - Erina and the City of Machines [v1.21] [coolsister]

A man walks down an aisle, faded checklist in hand. It’s cramped; everyone else is here for the same things. Like a factory line, the crowd moves and stops in an orderly fashion, picking from specific shelves and avoiding others like the plague.

He looks at the man before him. They’re all regulars here, but sometimes he sneaks a peak at what others cradle in their arms just to make sure that they’re all on the same page. He throws a glance over his shoulder, and they, too, are craning their necks to see what he is cooking today. Of course, these inquiries are purely superficial. Everyone is making the same thing. The beat, the tempo, the song and dance is repeated again and again, day in and day out, to appease an audience with an insatiable appetite. No one can blame them for what they do. It’s a winning formula, one that puts bread on the table regardless of how uninspired the results may be.

Erina and the City of Machines does absolutely nothing new. This is not a dig at it by any means, as it easily stands shoulder to shoulder with Shimobashira and other giants in the rpg maker h-game field. Complaining about the state of games in this genre would be like balking at the fact that every McD makes the same Big Mac. Personally, I just wish that the mold was broken more often.

Your above average RPGM H game. If you've played similar games to this, in particular, Detective Girl of the Steam City, expect a similar experience. The MC is in a corrupted city of horny dudes, and through the story she has to build things to help save the city. Nothing too out the ordinary story wise.

Artwork is nice, and there's an adequate number of scenes and fetishes accommodated for. There is outfits unlocked through her corruption, and the game has a very user-friendly interface. RPG bloat is kept to a minimum. 4/5

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PROs
✅ Great art
✅ Fairly pleasant and somewhat fun story
✅ Hot main chick with sultry older sister type slutty personality
✅ Nice H stat screen
✅ Gameplay element fairly straightforward
✅ Fairly nice H scenes
✅ Outfit options & customizable
✅ Some of CG have animations
CONs
❌ Messy scene room and a bit hard to scene hunt (no scene symbols, no gallery room unlock tips for lot of stuff)
❌ Not really “corruption” game, just slutty FMC, becoming more of a hoe
❌ Fairly tame with kinks & scenes
❌ Scenes themselves don’t have much of effect in game world dialogues (aside few)
❌ Obnoxious repeating soundtrack
Comments
I mean what can I say, as far as H-rpg games go this was fairly hot. Not really a corruption game even though game does have sort of a lust system. But because character herself is somewhat sultry older sister cool stereotype that does get rather proactive in scenes with her dialogues. She is more of slutty nee-san just becoming more proactive. Which overall was quite hot take and, on both scene, and script wise.

Story wasn’t too hard to follow nor too dull. It had its own little charm to it and was fairly enjoyable to read along and keep eye on story as well. So it was a nice touch to have little unique steam punkish fantasy story mixed with archeological expeditions.

Gameplay….. eh not much to combat. Had “Break/poise” system which was nice touch, but overall still very casual. Don’t think I had single challenging fight. For rest of the gameplay you essentially to odd jobs while occasionally talking to NPC’s for gather H scenes.

H aspect had its charm. There are some interactive H scenes where you essentially choose in menus your “act” and toggle between them allowing you do well, pace I guess as you want? While rest of the scripted scenes actually were for the most part quite good, with some of the CG’s having actual small Animations, which was neat. Most of the scenes scripts/dialogues were pretty hot especially when character was slutty enough to be fully proactive. But her meek scenes were also quite great. Also what I did like about H aspect was the fairly neat and clean status screen. It showed some interesting stats, H status effect and on advanced H screen you could unlock some CG, which you could set as your main status screen image.

Also having unlockable and customizable outfits and seeing them in scenes was also very neat. Great visual design and art as well.

Anyhow… main issues were the obnoxious repeating OST. Messy gallery room and hunting for 100% scenes was blind… by the end I was just running around the world, talking constantly to npcs. Yet by the end I still used the unlock switch and apparently still I missed tons of scenes I couldn’t figure out how to get. Bare bones and kinda pointless crafting system as most of combat was sadly too easy.

Overall… as H game, I’d say it had its charms and overall was still pretty neat and hot. Even though there were plenty of issues with it and it’s not really a “corruption” game in my book. Overall, it was still enjoyable and hot H game that did some things great and unique creating its own charming feeling.
Total Score: 7/10
Game status:
✅ Finished

Great game. Awsome art, story is not borring and easy to follow. I would like some more animation thought. Almost all adult content in this game are pictures.
Theris a sandbox aspect of the game. It also could be more diverse, currently it feels like you do all according to a linear storyline.

great game. ended a little abruptly imo but overall very good for H content. many different outfits with variations to choose from as well. my only complaint about the H content is there isn't much foreplay, most of the scenes rapidly escalate into sex and I prefer corruption that starts off a bit more slowly. there is some battle H but it's only with tentacles unfortunately so not much to look forward to there.

overall very reminiscent of Clymenia games which I'm a big fan of. the art is good, the variety of outfits is great, and theres a good amount of scenes. both this game and nightmare knight have recently surprised me with some quality newer rpgm H games that show that this genre still can compete with all the renpy daz3d games. really hope to see more from this dev.

Very basic and linear. It's the same system that you already seen a lot for hrpg.

Extremely easy fight, no impacting choices.

The protagonist is cute but not quite charismatic.

You have acces to different outfit that you unlock with the story. They can be damaged in fight.

It's entertaining if you are new in the hrpg genra but will be boring if you already played some.

Good story and good art style only downside is the censorship, but you got to lose something to gain something. Story is quite big I would say and is actually very well crafted and there are some 3D animations but not that noteworthy. Only reason I gave it a 5 is because of the story as it immerses you from the very beginning and I was hooked to it, and it goes with parallel with the eroge aspect of the game as well. The game also gives you quite a bit of freedom from the very beginning and specific endings can only be viewed after you complete the main story line.

Many outfits and mods, very nice indeed. it's still good but i believe this game still has sooooo many potentials to be better, doesn't mean it's bad, it's still good and i enjoyed so far.

Art : it's beautiful, i love coolsister's art but by far this one is THE BEST 10/10

Story : quite enjoyable as a H games, not too bad but not too good either 7.5/10

H scenes: to be honest it can be improved or added, it's still good however 7/10

overall it should be 8/10 in total (but sorry, because i like coolsister's game i give it 9/10)

Finally some good game on F95 !
Girl is wonderful, even if I pref. loli xD art is clean and really nice, in game there is like 40/50 different scenes kinda sad that there is almost no defeat scenes... if You lose to monsters often You just continue like nothing happend...

Just played 5 hours of it and ofc. finished game.

Music: annoying after 30 minutes of loop but who cares xD
Art: 10/10 amazing art
Gameplay: as for RPG Maker it's very well made.

For sure gonna keep that game on my PC and return to it from time to time

This is a game that's been put a lot of love and passion into. Many outfits, stories that are pretty good, an interesting mc and a lot to discover. I guess the developers had to stop themselves at some point to add details as this would've been an endless task. I did really enjoy it and hope there will be more games like this. A real masterpiece. I was sad when it was over.

Thoroughly enjoyed playing this game. More than enough content for both RPG and H enjoyers. Corruption mechanics feel fairly well thought out, with a small exception for the libido portion of the system feeling a little frustrating when trying to unlock various scenes. Side quests are memorable enough to encounter some of the content and want to come back later when properly equipped or corrupted to unlock variations or additional scenes.

The game has very good art style, and the rpg mechanics are not god awful like some other titles. In fact the mechanics kind of grow on you and are pretty simple. A lot of high quality scenes in this one.

In the time which filled with dirt cheap copy cat pain in the ass to play RPGM game this is a very solid and compact RPMG on this site , no grind, no long ass dungeon crawling or pointless map section , everything in this game work very well , the contest and the length of the game is well balanced . Dungeons has only 3 layer at best , enemy and combat is easy to catch on , you dont need to hunt for legendery item whatsoever , decent story with good plot for decent amount of RPG elements , using the newer RPGM version make the environment looks great , crafting is simple enough so you dont have to grind
i tate this 7.5/10 ; good game , not great

At its core it's a typical "regular girl spirals into sexual degeneracy" RPGM game.

The MC's design and artwork quality is stellar, but the censorship takes a lot away from the scenes. There's also a bit of "staleness" to many of the scenes, especially the interactive ones. Regardless, it's all still hot and the quantity and art quality of scenes makes up for a lot of the issues. The secondary girl has some pretty good scenes and a good design, but unfortunately the game teases showing you the tertiary girl naked (in adult form) but doesn't go through with it - an unnecessary blue-ball. A major highlight is that the dress-up system is fantastic. There's a lot of outfits available (especially for the length of the game) and all of them are customizable in one way or another.

There's a lot of "checklist content." That being: things that seem to only be there to check off a box on the "RPGM requirements" checklist. Easy combat, bare-bones crafting, and meaningless side-quests (to name a few) that are there solely to prolong the game. It's not bad, its just not good. All of this is countered by the story, as its pretty good.

Any logic behind almost all of the sexual content is absent, leading to MC's spiral into sexual degeneracy not being handled well in the slightest. There's times where you'll have no lewd level but she'll act like a full-blown slut. Then there times where you have high lewd level but she'll act shy and nervous. It's odd. I also think the progression of h-scenes shown is strange, such as how you don't unlock a BJ scene until late game (far after she's done more serious sexual stuff). Another example of the logic issue is how you'll enter a scene and choose an option that should lead to something innocent (like masturbation), but it actually leads to something incredibly explicit (such as full-blown rape). Don't get me wrong the h-scenes are hot, they're just seemingly random.

It's nice how the MC isn't opposed to and not hopelessly naïve to sex. What isn't nice is how they handle her virginity. There isn't really a "slow burn" of her venture into sex - the pacing is horrific. To this point I ask: why bother making her a virgin if you're going to throw it away as soon as possible? Something to add, every way for her to lose her virginity is through rape or is in a rape-like way, which sucks. The game also pushes you into having a specific character take her virginity or else you'll miss several h-scenes. Simple games such as this shouldn't require multiple playthroughs for h-content.

I'm focusing on a lot of negatives but to be honest, even with all of them the game is still worth playing if you're looking for a typical RPGM h-game and/or a steampunk RPGM h-game. Three stars is "average," and this game is certainly that. Do I wish MC's design was used for a better game? Yes. Did I have a good time playing despite the flaws? Yes. Should you give it a shot? I believe so.

9/10 - This game isn't quite a masterpiece, but it's top tier among this type of RPGM games.

The art in these type of games is very important imo, and this one doesn't disappoint. It's got a hot protagonist with a wide array of dress up options to pick from. You can even customize some of the outfits a bit...remove top, put jacket on or off, etc. You can use any of the outfits in battle and there is battle damage. About half of the H scenes actually use your current outfit, the others are locked to a specific costume. H scenes are pretty good, although sadly not voiced. Very fappable overall.

The combat is fun, nothing groundbreaking, but it has a few interesting skills. Not particularly challenging, but I may have over-leveled. The dungeons are short and sweet, thankfully without any maze-like designs to waste your time. Translation is good and the story is serviceable without dragging on and on. Took me about 6-7 hours for main story and another 2 hours for post-game quests and doing the rest of the events.

I have a few similar complaints to previous reviews...pregnancy system could be more fleshed out, corruption could progress a bit more smoothly, and I wish there were more choices of non-rapists to lose your virginity to. You need to save often to avoid unanticipated consequences on some events. I was also disappointed that there were some missable events if you try to save your virginity for a while...I like to savor the slow corruption in this type of game...at least you can unlock everything after you beat it.

Overall the devs remembered that they were making an H-game first and foremost, and I appreciate that...I'm not looking to play Elden Ring while I wank.

Pros:
Actual fun combat with break mechanic
MC has great art and looks attractive
Map level designs are great
Quite engaging story
Outfits/hair/pose customization
Dungeons are not too dragging

Cons:
Corruption scenarios are way too rushed
Sometimes objectives are confusing if you miss it

nice graphics
excelent corruption system
decent story
fast pacing
erotic achivments
outfits styling

developer did a great job, its not just run and kill turn base combat style enemies, nor run from point a to b for nfsw, its a good mix of both, with developing mechanics on top

althought pregnancy system is oblivious, but the game is good as it is

Pretty good game.

Combat system is classic, and most fights are pretty easy. The story is pretty generic, nothing too crazy. The corruption system is not the best, some scenes requires you to be a super slut for small rewards, and other just make you act like a slut with 0 lewd level. Also, I feel like the slut level gain curve is too fucked up. The 15 firsts lust levels feels very unnatural to gain (you need to voluntarly get yourself raped, or just show your tits to everyone with damaged clothes... but why would the character realistically do that with 0 lust ???), and after 25 lust points, you are just skyrocketting because 70% of the events requires 25-50 lust. Art is very good.

If you like Clymenia games, you will like this one. It's not the best game ever, but it's still better than 99% of H-Games, so I give it 4 stars.

The game claims to set itself apart by having a protagonist who isn't impossibly naive... but everything else about it is bog-standard. If you enjoy regular corruption games and think Erina's hot you'll likely enjoy this one too; if you were hoping for a game where an adventurer could actually fight off her molesters, then it's best to keep looking.
Some of the regular stuff this game does include:
- A hot protagonist
- Nice dress-up options
- Unexciting crafting
- No romance (there's only one dude who isn't a misogynist, but his scenes are locked behind max lewdness)
- A theoretically interesting combat system which you can largely ignore by simply blowing through the few fights there are
- The ability to set an assist in battle, which you'll likely largely ignore since fights are faster without them
- Innocuous choices in events lead to Erina getting raped. Whether you were expecting a voyeur/masturbation scene when choosing to masturbate in the shower while no one is around or were confident that Erina could just fight the guy off like last time, many events lead to rape with no indication that they will or should.

Total 6/10

Gameplay 6/10
This is the usual RPGM female protag gameplay. It's about doing tasks around the map, fighting enemies and events that gives you an option to make her corrupt or not.
Fight mechanism isn't different from the typical RPGM, but devs added something like exhaustion rate and etc.
Status screens, being able to change clothes and other things makes this game polished and doesn't feel unfinished or off

Story 6.5/10

I'm not the one to judge this since I always skip text (I even install cheat codes that lets you skip dialogues on games when I can't skip) and I don't like stories in games like these in general
But it looks as if it was done with effort and it has multiple endings (that doesn't branch off right before the end) so I gave it a 6.5

Graphics 7/10
Lots of CGs. I like this illustrations. MC is also hot (I mean look at those boobies)

It's obviously good compared to all the RPGM games that's been uploaded to this site recently.